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Iraq and EU ~ Iraq Signs Cooperation Agreement with the European Union worth 42 million euros to finance program of institutitutional development ...

August 4, 2010

Iraq Signs Cooperation Agreement with the European Union worth 42 million euros to finance the program of capacity-building and institutional development

The Iraqi government signed a cooperation agreement with the European Union worth 42 million euros to finance the program of capacity-building and institutional development.

And the transfer of the National Center for information about the chief advisers Thamer Ghadban said that the Convention aims to fund a program for capacity building and institutional development of the judicial, educational, health, and on basic services, as well as the development of other institutions such as the Electoral Commission for elections and the Electoral Commission of Human Rights.

For his part, President of the European Iobst von Kirkhman, Director of Development Cooperation of the European Union mission to Iraq, that the Convention has evolved in the light of the close cooperation fruitful cooperation with the Iraqi side.

He pointed out that it has opened a new chapter in the record of development cooperation between the EU and Iraq in the framework of the Partnership good and deep with the Iraqi government was founded on the principle of combining the efforts of the Iraqi government in building infrastructure and support provided by the EU in the area of capacity-building.

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